Senior officials from China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran reached a consensus on Thursday to step up communication and coordination on the Afghan issue, Reuters reported. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister …
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Putin: Western Armies – ‘Illegal’ Presence in Syria Undermining Hopes for Peace
Jordan’s Normalization with Syria Prevailing After U.S. Green Light
Behind closed doors, a meeting is being held in Amman between international stakeholders to discuss normalization with Syria, according to Nedaa Post. Confidential sources revealed to Nedaa Post that an important meeting is held in Jordan revolving around the Syrian issue. The meeting is attended by European and American representatives, …
Read More »For the U.S., Better Syria than Iran in Lebanon
Last week, the Energy ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon met in Amman, to discuss a plan to transmit Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity to Lebanon, which is suffering from a severe shortage in electricity and fuel. This comes after the first official Lebanese visit to Syria since the …
Read More »Taking Stock of the Terrorism Landscape in the United Kingdom
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum recently revealed that over the past four years, thirty-one “late-stage” terror plots were thwarted by British authorities. The Taliban victory in Afghanistan is likely to embolden UK-based Islamic extremists and McCallum warned that recent events have provided a morale boost to jihadists and their supporters. …
Read More »What Should the United States Expect from a Taliban Government?
Just last week, the Taliban installed several members of the Haqqani Network in senior government positions, including Sirajuddin Haqqani as interior minister and Khalil Haqqani as minister for refugees. The threat posed by Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) looks likely to bring the Taliban and al-Qaeda even closer together.Because the Taliban …
Read More »Taliban says it wants to build relations with all countries, except Israel
The Taliban has announced that its government aims to establish ties and diplomatic relations with all countries of the world, except for Israel. According to the group’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen, who spoke to the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, the group will even allow relations to develop with the United …
Read More »Israel could benefit most if Algeria fails to renew Morocco gas pipeline deal
The future of Algeria’s gas pipeline which supplies southern Spain via Morocco is shrouded in mystery as the diplomatic row between Rabat and Algiers persists and the contractual deadline for using the transit pipeline looms. Yesterday, Algeria’s state-owned oil company, Sonatrach, announced that it had increased the annual transmission capacity …
Read More »Peur et dégoût au Mali: comment l’Afrique est devenue le point focal du réseau de trafic de drogue
Une enquête originale du groupe des journalistes africains dévoile un fait décevant: au cours des 10 prochaines années, le nombre d’utilisateurs des drogues augmentera de 40 %. Selon l`opinion des chercheurs, cela est principalement dû à l’ampleur croissante de la production parallèle, de la contrebande et des ventes. Dans ce …
Read More »Iran’s Foreign Minister To Travel To US For UN General Assembly
Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian will travel to New York on Monday to take part in the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, a spokesman said. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian will leave Tehran for New …
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